duck!

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sun Oct 17 01:00:57 PDT 2010


abram wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> It reminds me of when a friend visited my house. After a very brief
>> interval, he announced could tell it was a quality house, not a cheap
>> facade. Intrigued, I asked him how. He said that the screw slots
>> holding the wall plates on were all aligned the same way. It's a
>> wholly irrelevant detail, added absolutely nothing to the function,
>> but he said such attention to detail indicated the contractor cared
>> about getting the details right.
> 
> That reminds me of many a house I considered buying: what's behind those 
> walls? Nuff said, but I'll go on. Are there rats in the cellar? Lead 
> pipes? Asbestos? Walls cover it all. Show me what's under those walls and 
> maybe you'll have a sale. Wait, that's the wrong "argument". Time out, 
> regroup.: I would not buy anything "glossed over" (ref: engine 
> compartments of cars people buy. Oh yes, they pressure wash them and give 
> them a coat of laquer!).

Yeah, but if they do a sloppy job on what shows, that doesn't bode well for what 
doesn't.


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